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Race to 180: My prop bet with Spacegravy

Two members of Team Online have an issue. One feels like he’s too big. One feels like he is too little. In a poker world where fitness has become the fashion, George Lind and Grayson Physioc have decided to put their money where their mouth is. Serious… Continue reading

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2012 World Series of Poker Final Table — Meet The Final Nine

The final table is set in the 2012 World Series of Poker main event! Card Player TV brings you info on the nine finalists, including chip counts, prior scores and more. One of these nine men will be the next poker world champion, walking away … Continue reading

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WSOP 2012: Heinz in spotlight as title defence continues

They may be entirely different days but they all had one shuffle up and deal this morning. As is now the custom a dignitary of sorts is presented with the microphone each morning to make the ceremonial first pitch, and today that task fell to the rei… Continue reading

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WSOP 2012: Heart

Josie Franco put her hands over her open mouth as the skin around her eyes tightened. It’s the universal gesture of a woman nearly overcome. Her hips pressed against the nylon rail as she looked at a table in the middle of the room.

“He almost died,”… Continue reading

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WSOP 2012: Heart

Josie Franco put her hands over her open mouth as the skin around her eyes tightened. It’s the universal gesture of a woman nearly overcome. Her hips pressed against the nylon rail as she looked at a table in the middle of the room.

“He almost died,”… Continue reading

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PokerStars weekend review (7-1-12)

Let’s just call this what it is: this was a weekend where the live poker world overshadowed the online affairs. It’s a fact of poker life. Sometimes the news crawls out from the online ether and animates itself in real people. This weekend, the news wa… Continue reading

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Tom “durrrr” Dwan: WSOP Big One for One Drop Q&A

This is the first WSOP event of 2012 for Dwan, who just flew to Las Vegas from Macau where he’s been playing the super high-stakes cash games, along with a few other players in the Big One field.
Dwan is a legend in the high-stakes cash-game world bu… Continue reading

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WSOP 2012: Blom, Selbst in for a big night

What is slated to happen at the World Series of Poker tonight is the poker equivalent of the Ghostbusters crossing their proton streams. Team PokerStars Pros Viktor Blom and Vanessa Selbst will both be headed back to the Rio tonight and are in position… Continue reading

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Can you help Rafa Nadal?

It’s perhaps a little presumptuous to suggest we mere mortals could help Rafa Nadal with anything. The eleven-time Grand Slam winner is a superhero. He’s been a superhero for as long as anyone can remember. How could we simple citizens of Earth possibl… Continue reading

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Why Poker Needs a Pro to Win the $1M Big One for One Drop

And with a projected prize pool of over $42 million, and 15 amateurs currently committed to playing, there’s a real chance that a huge chunk of that money might be leaving the poker world forever.
“It’s going to be tough for an amateur to win wit… Continue reading

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